Will all the trees fall? Variable resistance to an introduced forest disease in a highly susceptible host

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1781-1791

  Hayden, Katherine J ^a   Nettel, Alejandro ^a   Dodd, Richard S ^a   Garbelotto, Matteo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary ecology; Forest pathology; Notholithocarpus densiflorus; PST; Phytophthora ramorum; Sudden oak death

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY; FOREST PATHOLOGY; NOTHOLITHOCARPUS DENSIFLORUS; PST; PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM; SUDDEN OAK DEATH;

BIODIVERSITY; DISEASES; DNA SEQUENCES; ECOLOGY; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; PATHOLOGY;

ASSAYS;

ASSAY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EUKARYOTE; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INOCULATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

LITHOCARPUS; LITHOCARPUS DENSIFLORUS; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM;

EID: 79954995140     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.01.042     Document Type: Article

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